Misfit-layered Bi1.85Sr2Co1.85O7.7−δ for the hydrogen evolution reaction : beyond van der Waals heterostructures by Chua, Chun Kiang, Sofer, Zdeněk, Jankovský, Ondřej, Pumera, Martin

“…Herein, a misfit-layered chalcogenide consisting of CoO2 layers interleaved with an SrO–BiO–BiO–SrO rock-salt block and having the formula Bi1.85Sr2Co1.85O7.7−δ is synthesized and examined for its structural and electrochemical properties. …”
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Hyperfast water transport through biomimetic nanochannels from peptide-attached (pR)-pillar[5]arene by Li, Qing, Li, Xuesong, Ning, Lulu, Tan, Choon-Hong, Mu, Yuguang, Wang, Rong

“…This membrane gives a significantly improved water flux while retaining high salt rejection. The results establish a tangible foundation for developing highly efficient artificial water channel‐based biomimetic membrane for water purification applications.…”
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A facile route to enhance the water flux of a thin-film composite reverse osmosis membrane: incorporating thickness-controlled graphene oxide in a highly porous support layer by Lee, Jaewoo, Jang, Jun Hee, Chae, Hee-Ro, Lee, Sang H., Lee, Chung-Hak, Park, Pyung-Kyu, Won, Young-June, Kim, In-Chul

“…The TFC RO membrane made of the GO composite support layer had almost 1.6 to 4 times higher water flux with comparable salt rejection compared to both the current upper bounds of the RO membranes prepared by modification of the active layer and commercial RO membranes.…”
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Antitumor polycyclic acridines. 7. Synthesis and biological properties of DNA affinic tetra- and pentacyclic acridines by Stanslas, Johnson, Hagan, Damien J., Ellis, Michael J., Turner, Claire, Carmichael, James, Ward, Wynne, Hammonds, Timothy R., Stevens, Malcolm F. G.

“…The novel water-soluble agent dihydroindolizino[7,6,5-kl]acridinium chloride 14 has inhibitory activity in a panel of non-small-cell lung and breast tumor cell lines exceeding that of m-AMSA. The salt inhibited the release of minicircle products of kDNA confirming that disorganization of topoisomerase II partly underlies the activity of the compound. …”

Barrier Function to Skin Elasticity in Talking Head by Chaturvedi, Iti, Pandelea, Vlad, Cambria, Erik, Welsch, Roy, Datta, Bithin

“…We first validated the approach on the diffusion of salt water in coastal areas using a synthetic finite element simulation. …”
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Controlling the thermally-driven crystallization of DNA-coated nanoparticles with formamide by Hueckel, Theodore, Woo, Seungyeon, Macfarlane, Robert J

“…While various design handles such as particle size, DNA design, and salt concentration influence the stability of the DNA duplexes linking PAEs in a lattice, their influence on the system's melting temperature (Tm) often follows complicated trends that make rational tuning of self-assembly challenging. …”
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Next generation electrolytes for sodium ion battery by Do, Minh Phuong

“…First, the effect of sodium conducting salts in IL electrolyte on the cyclability of Na0.6Mn0.9Co0.1O2 half-cell and the formation of electrode-electrolyte interphases were investigated. …”
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Image processing algorithms for medical applications by Ling, Regina Ming Zhen

“…The four types of medical images will be corrupted individually with four different noises (i.e. Gaussian, Poisson, Salt and Pepper and Speckle noise). The experiment was carried out on a total of 40 images, 10 images for each type of medical images. …”
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Enhancement of novel water battery by surface additive treatment on porous media by Razali Mohamed Shariff

“…FO utilizes difference in salt concentration to induce flow from low concentration feed side to the high concentration draw side through a semi-permeable membrane. …”
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Olga Tokarczuk’s art of reading: a linguistic view by Bilut-Homplewicz, Zofia, Krauz, Maria

“…The purpose of this article is to analyze the process of reading shown from different perspectives in Olga Tokarczuk's essay Palec w soli, czyli Krótka historia mojego czytania (A Finger in the Salt, or A Short History of My Reading). The authors examine how the writer understands the process of reading, how she captures the category of the reader, and what role the imagination of the recipient plays in this process. …”
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Solvent-driven aqueous separations for hypersaline brine concentration and resource recovery by Foo, Zi Hao, Stetson, Caleb, Dach, Elizabeth, Deshmukh, Akshay, Lee, Hyeonseok, Menon, Akanksha K., Prasher, Ravi, Yip, Ngai Yin, Lienhard, John H, Wilson, Aaron D.

“…Solvent-driven fractional crystallization can leverage sequential treatment and control of process conditions to rapidly recover salts without requiring evaporation of water. Despite promising applications, the principles and potential of solvent-driven aqueous separations remain poorly understood. …”
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Investigation of pulsed electric field operation as a chemical-free anti-scaling approach for electrodialysis desalination of brackish water by Honarparvar, Soraya, Al-Rashed, Rashed, Winter V., Amos G.

“…To evaluate the effects of the pulsed operation on the extent and kinetics of salt formation, a series of nine-day batch experiments were performed for pulsed and conventional ED (PED and CED, respectively). …”
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Molecular, Genetic, and Process Approaches for Improving Secreted Pharmaceutical Protein Quality in Komagataella phaffii by Yang, Yuchen

“…This thesis explores three different engineering approaches aimed at improving the quality of both aglycosylated and glycosylated proteins, with a particular focus on monoclonal antibodies, the leading class of protein biopharmaceuticals by both sales and innovation. Firstly, we demonstrated significant quality improvements through molecular sequence engineering of aglycosylated monoclonal antibody backbones. …”
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Supply chain performance with target-oriented firms by Chen, Lucy Gongtao, Tang, Qinshen

“…We study a supply chain in which a supplier sets the whole-sale price and a retailer responds with an order quantity. …”
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Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…<p>When governments make decisions regarding exports of military equipment, they often look at humanitarian conditions in potential importers, considering the state of human rights or whether arms sales could multiply violence. However, why do governments care about ‘distant strangers’? …”

Fermented bed flooring systems enhance profitability in smallholder native pig production by Sivilai, Bounlerth, Vongpaserth, Thonglai, Liang, Juan Boo, Bush, Russell

“…Native pigs kept in the FB system had significantly higher total production costs because of the cost of the bedding material, but also had four-fold higher net income return generated from the sale of the fermented floor compost. Conclusions. …”

Technical aspects of marine plastic litter treatment by pyrolysis, for material and energy recovery by Wu, Xinyi

“…Due to the long exposure to the marine environment and contamination from salts and microorganisms, the properties of marine plastic litter would potentially differ from conventional plastic waste. …”
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Preparation of Nd-Fe-B/α-Fe nanocomposite by chemical reduction method by Lim, Darryl Yu Zhi.

“…NdBO3 is found to be present in samples which were prepared in the basic and slightly acidic Fe3+ and Nd3+ salts solution. This is due to the formation of Nd(BO2)3 during synthesis which was converted to NdBO3 after thermal treatment. …”
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Studies of bioactivity of proteins encapsulated in liposomes by Ho, Amelia May Teng.

“…Negatively charged liposomes were fabricated from 1, 2-Dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1, 2-Dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3[Phospho-rac-(1-glycerol)] (sodium salt, DMPG-Na) and cholesterol in 60:20:20 wt%. Liposome samples were characterized prior to the start of the drug release study and standard calibration curves for the determination of unknown concentrations of the samples were also plotted. …”
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Optimization of operational conditions for continuous membrane distillation crystallization process with zero discharge by Lim, Deric Weikang.

“…By tapping onto the potentials of MD, it becomes possible to operate under a supersaturated state of the solution, thereby achieving the objective of zero discharge to the environment while recovering valuable salts. However, in the current literature, only a few studies provided limited coverage about the optimization of a continuous MDC process performance with regard to supersaturated solutions. …”
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